timber
Syllables: tim·berUK/ˈtɪmbə//ˈtɪmbɚ/
timber noun: trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
Noun
timber (countable and uncountable, plural timbers)
- Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- collect timber
- cut down timber
- Synonyms:
- timberland, forest
- Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
- A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
- the timbers of a ship
- Material for any structure.
- The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
- A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
- The stumps.
Interjection
- Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
- From the core of the trunk come explosive cracks sounding like rifle-fire. The top of the tree begins swaying drunkenly, as if struggling to keep on its feet. The warning cry "Timber!"1961, Robert S. Close, With Hooves of Brass, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 34
- A cry used when anything is falling over.
- The cameras caught the big man crashing to the studio floor. It seemed to take an age for Sticks to hit the deck and as he went down we all chorused "Timberrrr!"1991, Rex Mossop, The Moose That Roared, Sydney: Ironbark Press, page 160
Verb
timber (third-person singular simple present timbers, present participle timbering, simple past and past participle timbered)
- To fit with timbers.
- timbering a roof
- To construct, frame, build.
- For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 5, p. 14
- To light or land on a tree.
- To make a nest.
- To surmount as a timber does.
timber meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
timber in Tamil
- வெட்டு மரம்
timber in Urdu
- timber
- دارو dāru
timber in Bengali
- কাঠ, কাষ্ঠ, দারূ, দারূবৃক্ষ, কাট, কড়িকাঠ
timber in Telugu
- trees considered as a source of wood
- కలప kalapa
- wood that has been cut ready for construction
- కలప kalapa
More languagesFewer languages
- timber in Malayalam
- മരം maraṁ
- timber in Kannada
- ಮರಮುಟ್ಟು, ಚೌಬೀನೆ, ನಾಟ, ಮರಮಟ್ಟು
- timber in Gujarati
- દાર dār
- timber in Sanskrit
- काष्ठ kāṣṭha, दारु dāru
- timber in Sinhala
- දැව dæwa
- timber in Pashto
- لرګی largay
- timber in Tagalog
- baol
- timber in Arabic
- خَشَب ḵašab, خَشَب! ḵašab
- timber in Malay
- balak
- timber in Thai
- ไม้ล้ม mái lóm
- timber in Myanmar
- သစ် sac
Examples of timber in a sentence
- A laminated arch is a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.
- The locktenders awoke to a bargeful of timber lodged against their headgate.
- A piece of timber sometimes springs in seasoning.
Synonyms of timber
Forms of timber
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | timbers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | timbers |
| present participle | timbering |
| past participle | timbered |
| past | timbered |
Origin of timber
From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą (“building; timber”), from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build; to arrange”) (see Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home, house”)). Cognates Cognate with Dutch timmer (“building, construction; chamber, room”), German Zimmer (“room, timber”), Luxembourgish Zëmmer (“room”), Yiddish צימער (tsimer, “room”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tømmer (“timber”), Faroese and Icelandic timbur (“timber, wood”), Norwegian Nynorsk timber, tymbur, tømmer (“timber”), Swedish timmer (“timber”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌱𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timbrjan), 𐍄𐌹𐌼𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌽 (timrjan, “to build, construct; to edify, strengthen”); also Breton danvez (“material, matter; fabric; fortune, wealth”), Cornish devnydh (“inhredient, material, stuff; use”), Irish and Scottish Gaelic damhna (“matter”), Welsh defnydd (“material, stuff; gear, implement, instrument; application; cause, occasion, reason”), Latin domus (“home, house”), Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos, “house; household”), Albanian dhomë (“chamber, room”), Latgalian noms (“house”), Latvian nams (“house”), Lithuanian namas (“house”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian дом (dom, “home...
Words formed from timber
- belly-timber
- betimber
- Big Timber
- bond timber
- compass timber
- half-timber
- half-timbered
- hawse timber
- horn timber
- jack timber
- nontimber
- poletimber
- put some timber on
- retimber
- sawtimber
- shiver me timbers
- sport timber
- timber camp
- timber circle
- timberclad
- timber-clad
- timber drawer
- timbered
- timber fly
- timber framing
- timbergetter
- timberhead
- timber hitch
- timberish
- Timber Lake
- timberland
- timberless
- timberlike
- timberline
- timber line
- timberling
- timberman
- timber merchant
- timbermonger
- timber nigger
- timber rafting
- timber rattlesnake
- timber-toe
- timber wolf
- timberwork
- timberwright
- timbery
- timberyard
- virgin timber
Phrases with timber
- Timber Cove
- timber yard
- timber camps
- timber flies
- timber lines
- timber yards
- sports timber
- timber wolves
- sported timber
- timber circles
- timber drawers
- timber hitches
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Words that rhyme with timber
Questions about timber
- What does timber mean?
- Timber means trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- What is timber in Tamil?
- Timber in Tamil is வெட்டு மரம். See Timber meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is timber?
- Timber can be a noun, an interjection or a verb.
- How do you pronounce timber?
- Timber is pronounced /ˈtɪmbə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of timber?
- The plural of timber is timbers.
Words near timber in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: timber (page history and authors); timber (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); دارو (Urdu) (page history and authors); timber (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); timber (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); દાર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); දැව (Sinhala) (page history and authors); لرګی (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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